With the outgoing Ron Klain on one side and the incoming Jeff Zients on the other, President Joe Biden delivered remarks in the East Room of the White House on Feb. 1 commemorating the chief of staff transition.
Klain, who served as Biden’s chief of staff when he was vice president and then accepted the same role when Biden took office as president in January 2021, will step down on Feb. 8.
He will be replaced by Zients, a former Obama administration official who spearheaded Biden’s coronavirus response team.
“I knew this day would come, but it doesn’t make it any easier. He came to work with me on the Senate Judiciary Committee a week after he got married,” Biden said of Klain. “I knew the moment he started, he was a once-in-a-generation talent….